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Scottish love, intrigue, Russia and some bonus E.S.P. because WHY NOT!? 💜

“From the first time I met them, they‘ve been on the knives,” he said, using the Russian expression for people who shared a dislike for each other.

I just LOVE this expression and plan to incorporate it into my life. I‘m on the knives with all kinds of people, it shouldn‘t be hard. 🤣

Twelve-year-old Elizabeth is sent to spend the summer with her distracted, scholarly aunt at a Scottish manor house and finds herself mysteriously able to interact with the 18th-century family who once lived there.

“Time-slip” stories were a huge childhood favourite of mine and this 1975 novel is such a good addition to the genre.

It takes until chapter 8 or so to figure out how this is a sequel to The Winter Sea (and an irritably long time to get to the sexy Scottishness of it all) but now I‘m there and enjoying the next journey in this trilogy.

Here are my top 24 reads of 2023. Why 24? Because that's how many covers fit into the frame. 😁

I've spent most of my day #audiobaking blackberry peach cobbler, pumpkin spice muffins, banana cake, and malted milkball brownies (I've lived at altitude my whole life, why is getting things to rise still hit or miss? 😫)
I've read/ listened to this book several times but Susanna Kearsley always works for me.

Great little short story.

A radio operator listening for U-boats during WWII catches a transmission form the future. She arranges for a radio to be delivered to a specific place and point in time, hoping against reason to establish communication. A connection over space and time ensues.

Emotional but not melodramatic like these things often are; logical as much as time travel can be; short and to the point; concise—a nice, round story that hit a spot.

4.5/5

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